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H. ATKINSON &-. G. W. HULL.

WHISTLE. No. 398,213. Patented Feb. 19,1889.

nirnn STATES T FFlCiEt HERBERT ATKINSON AND GURDON XV. HULL, OF lVALLINGFORD, GON- NEGTICUT; SAID ATKINSON ASSIGNOR TO SAID HULL.

WHISTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,213, dated February 19, 1889.

Application filed October 8, 1888.

To (6% whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HERBERT ATKINSON and GURDON XV. HULL, of \Vallingford, in the county of New Haven and State of Oonn ecticut, have invented a new Improvement in lVhistles; and we do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon,to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure l, a side view of a handle with the whistle in the closed position, Fig. 2, a partial view of same, showing the whistle in the open position; Fig. 3, a transverse central section of Fig.1 Fig. l, a transverse central section of Fig. 2; Fig. 5, a transverse central section showing a modification in the construction of the whistle and as constructed for a pocket-whistle.

This invention relates to an. improvement in whistles particularly adapt-ed to handles for canes, whips, umbrellas, and like, articles, but

- applicable to other purposes, and may be used as an independent call or signal whistle. As usually constructed, the openings of the whistle are exposed and liable to become clogged,

and when formed as part, of a handle detract from the finished appearance of the handle.

The object of this invention is to produce a whistle in which in its normal condition the openings are closed and unexposed; and it consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claims.

I illustrate the whistle as made a part of a canehandle.

A represents thebody oi the handle, which, as here represented, is hollow and made from metal, and closed near the outer end by a disk, (1, but so as to leave a tubular recess in the end of the body, as seen in Fig. 3; or, in case the handle solid, the recess is formed at the end, the said disk a representing the bottom of the recess. From the disk (1. a spindle, 7), extends outward, of a length corres nmding to the desired length of the finished handle, and terminates with a head or button, (I, Upon the spindle Z) a disk, c, is fixed in a plane at right angles to the axis of Serial No. 287,475. (No model.)

the spindle, but at a point outside the end of the body of the handle, and of a diameter less than the internal diameter of the body A.

B represents the tip of the handle, which is tubular. The external diameter of the inner end corresponds to the diameter of the recess in the body A, and so as to slide therein, contracted at its outer end, so that its internal diameter at the outer end corresponds to the diameter of the button (I, and so that when in the closed position, as seen in Fig. 3, the button (I closes the end of the tip B.

In the tip B a series of circumfercntial slots, f, are formed in such a position that when the head B is drawn out the outer edge of the slots will come into the plane oi the disk 6, which is of slightly less diameter than the internal diameter of the tip B, and so as to leave an annular opening between the disk 6 and the inner surface of the tip, as seen in Fig. l.

To prevent the tip Blj'rom being drawn out, so that the slots f will pass beyond the disk e, a longitudinal slot, g, is made in the inner portion of the tip B,and a stud, 71 is arranged in the body A to project into the slot g, as seen in Figs. 'and l, and thereby stop the tip in its proper relation to the disk 2.

In its normal or closed position the tip B rests in the body A, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3, held there by frictional contact. In operation the tip B is drawn out, as seen in Figs. 2 and l, and so that, blowing into the tip B, the wind passes in over thebutton (Z and disk 6, and impinging on the inner edge of the slot f, as indicated by arrows, Fig. at, produces the whistling sound.

Instead of producing the whistle by an annular discharge of the wind against a practicall y-annular edge of the slots, after themam nor of steam-whistles, the tip may-be provided with a single slot or opening, 'f, as seen in Fig. 5, and the spindle made accordingly, so that there will be a single opening from the open end of the tip to the slot to produce the sound; but in this case there is the same advantage of the sliding tip--that is, that the end of the tip is entirely closed when not in use and the whistling apparatus inclosed in the surrounding body.

By this construction a handle is produced which in its closed position may be the same in appearance as an ordinary handle, and one in which the whistle is in no Way liable to become clogged.

Vhile the constructitm ot' the Whistle is especially designed [or handles for canes, umbrellas, or like purposes, it will be evident that the tubular-lmdy and sliding tip maybe employed as a pocket-whistle, and as indicated in Fig. 5.

e claim 1. The herein-described whistle, consisting of the combination of the tubular body A, the tip B, arranged to slide longitudinally in said tubular body, the outer end of the tip open but contracted, an extension from the body Within said tip and terminating at its outer end in a head corresponding to the contracted opening through'the outer end of the tip, and so as to close the outer end of the tip when the tip is in the closed position, the tip constructed with one or more openingsthrough .it in such relation to the body that the openings in the tip are exposed only when the tip is drawn from the body, and the extension from the body provided with a disk of less transverse area than the interior of the tip at the openings and at a point corresponding to the outer edge of the opening when the tip is withdrawn, substantially as described.

to an internal diameter corresponding to the said head, and so that in the closed position the said head will close the outer end, the

' spindle also constructed With a disk, (2, in a plane at right angles to its axis Within the tip and outside the open end of the body, the said disk of less diameter than the internal diameter of the tip, and the tip constructed with circumferential slots f in such relation to the said disk 6 that when the tip is drawn out the outer edge of the slots will come into the plane of the disk, and a stop to arrest the outward movement of the tip When the slots of the tip have reached their proper position in relation to the disk, substantially as described. Y

H. ATKINSON. G. \V. HULL. \V i tn esses:

JOHN R. FRANCIS, WM. M. WHITTAKER. 

